The Big Five personality traits, goal orientations, and academic achievement

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 54, Issue , 2017, Pages 126-134

  Sorić, Izabela ^a   Penezić, Zvjezdan ^a   Burić, Irena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Goal orientations; Mediation analysis; Personality traits; Self regulated learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 85012295346     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2017.01.024     Document Type: Article

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